Colors
Like the pit stop at Ben-Hur’s chariot race The organized chaos of an African market Where confusion of an artful palette of colors Set an impressionist scene where lights and dust play Languid bodies and reclining souls, a couple flirting in the distance In a haze of a burning spotlight reaching its zenith in the […]
Pedaling across the Chinese “bridge of friendship” on River Niger Riding on the metalled road, looking at the rice paddies His boubou is the color of the fields in the evening light The sky turns pink and blue as the night gets ready for the show Photo Hugh Ardoin Niamey Dusk and Dust Gallery Hits: […]
We live our own cosmic lives in a universe fraught with desires The satellites of our dreams slowly circle the planet of vanities Like Icarus we get distracted by the colorful window’s fatal attraction Our heart jumps through the window to meet our perfect reflection The sudden sublimation of the ‘new me’ as we re-enter […]
The long caravan of music rigs forms narrow alleys Under the shadowy protection of the debonair giants Groups assemble, talk and flirt under the guise of the twilight zone Secret doings and undoings unfurl like flags in a soft breeze Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2018 Carnival Gallery Hits: 10
Murals on a yellow warehouse As the morning sun chases the Pacific fogs Bright colors fill the streets of Lima A talented artist offered portraits to the wall And to the passerby with open eyes Photo Hugh Ardoin The Americas Gallery Hits: 155
Wearing a purple Ebony Steel Band shirt, a young beauty floats away But her red complexion is more like mahogany than ebony Both are precious hard woods from the African rainforests Meanwhile the girls dance away in a flurry of colors We look in awe and wonder as reality swiftly changes into memories We try […]
Granaries old and new where the millet grain is sifted and collected The thatch will be used for thehouses and fodder for the beasts In a timeless place the seasons are told by the crops and the colors Patience is no waiting the work on the fields has no end Millet grows in the sand […]
Like an universe fathered by Fellini’s defunct genuis Coming from the Trastevere, the ancient badlands of Rome And the shady alleys of Venice once haunted by Casanova Maybe something about the rotting Kingdom of Denmark Where the Angel of Bizarre sprinkled the colors of Heaven and Hell Meet the fearsome Cherubs guarding the two gates […]
Young Black Beauties in their shining armor The Knights of a midsummer dream coming in colors The fairies let loose to cast their spell in your troubled mind Their image will fall like a stone in the deep well of your soul Turning water into fire, until your heart is reduced to ashes Hugh Ardoin […]
The River Niger is a blue green serpent in the desert It leaves a small track with only few greens around Two women walk against the flow to their destination Small dots of vibrant colors int the giant landscape Red iron ore and yellow millet chaff bring an alien perspective A solitary tree survived the […]